. New, rare and beautiful plants. Nurseries (Horticulture) New York (State) New Rochelle Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Wisconsin Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. Latania Borbonica. Illustrated on page $5. The Thrinax, or Silver Thatch Palms. These are slow-growing small Fan Palms of picturesque outline and unusual elegance. Gi'acefully set on slender, wiry stems, the deeply divided, fringed and polished leaves form an airy, spreading crown of exceeding beauty. The light green and si
. New, rare and beautiful plants. Nurseries (Horticulture) New York (State) New Rochelle Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Wisconsin Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. Latania Borbonica. Illustrated on page $5. The Thrinax, or Silver Thatch Palms. These are slow-growing small Fan Palms of picturesque outline and unusual elegance. Gi'acefully set on slender, wiry stems, the deeply divided, fringed and polished leaves form an airy, spreading crown of exceeding beauty. The light green and silver tints of the Thrinax Palms are valuable for contrast in color with darker-foliaged sorts, and the clear-cut, jaunty elegance of their leaf outlines is pleasingly distinct in variety of form. THRINAX arg-entea. The real Silver Thatch Palm. $5. I THRINAX elegantissima. Feathery deep-cut leaves. $ T. elegans. The leaves are almost star-shape. $5. | T. parviflora. Eoyal Palmetto Thatch Palm. $ General Collection of Palms—Continued. Rhapis flabelliformis. RHAPIS flabelliformis. A pretty little .Japanese Cane Palm, suckering from tlie roots like a bamboo, as shown in our illus- tration. Forms elegant plants of most con- venient size, quite different in appearance from other Palms, the leaves being smaller and finer cut. It is of hardy, healthy habit, and useful whei-e larger Palms are inad- missible. $ R. — intermedia. Leaves nearly horizontal. An odd and somewhat !f.: Khivanwontsik. rare species. $5. R. humilis. Exceedingly graceful and dis- tinct. $.5. SABAL glaucescens. A handsome Um- brella Pahn or Palmetto. See New and Rare Plants. $1 and upward. SEAFORTHIA elegans. The Giant or Feather Palm of (Queensland. Nothing could be tiner than the grand sweeij of its arching fronds, which grow from 2 to 8 feet in length and are distinguished for their featliei-y elegance. $1 and upward. VERSCHAFFELTIA melanochsetes. Has fronds of conspicuous and remarkable form,
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